This problem is beyond this party or that party, it is a fundamental problem with the long term policies of the US regime. If you look at the debt chart over the years, it has been constantly rising and there are always jumps in the chart whenever the regime starts a new war.

For example from 1995 to 2000 the US national debt is in $5 trillion territory with not much rise but in early 2000 as Bush (a republican) starts his wars the US national debt doubles in a little more than 5 years and before his term ends in 2009 he has successfully brought the debt to $12 trillion.
After that Obama came and was both caught in the ditch Bush had dug for him and the holes he dug himself with the money he spend supporting ISIS he brought US debt from $12 to about $20 trillion.
Then an idiot came along called Trump who had no understanding of anything and dug those holes deeper and in only 4 years he brought the US debt from $20 to $28
And of course the senile Joe who is in all those holes his predecessors had dug and new holes he keeps digging so this is where we are today.

The worst part is that on one hand they can not change these policies because the artificial country called United States has been built on wars, invasion, resource theft, colonization and mayhem. The day a POTUS stops overseas killing for resources is the day US ends.
On the other hand US can no longer keep the overseas "adventures" up anymore because it is no longer post world war time where other countries are either weak or destroyed so US can come and steal their everything.
Look at the recent news of the past 5 years for example. Every day US military bases overseas are attacked and over the past 40 days the number and strength of these attacks have increased significantly. One of the armies attacking them is the Iraqi military arm Kataeb brigade that has been bombing the shit out of US military bases in Iraq and Syria ever since US deployed troops in Gaza. All US has done in response was to sanction them

Yeah, it is very easy to get caught in a routine and forget to live a little. The worst thing that sometimes happen to people is when they "live to make money instead of making money to live".

It is not a bad thing to want to save or invest your money for the future as long as you have a clear plan not just saving money forever. For example you could be planning on working hard and saving money for 5 years to reach your big goals then from that point you loosen up and start spending more. But if you save money for 5 years then continue not spending anything and invest more and save more, you'd be wasting your life.

Besides, Franky had some good points on this. In a lot of cases people are too lost in consumerism that they think they need something but they really don't.

Nah, everything is fine. There is no economic, energy, food, etc. crisis at all. This is all fake LOL.

In all seriousness though, this was expected with the way Biden is burning through money and the printers are working 24/7 increasing the US national debt. The worst part is that this is still nothing compared to what is coming in the following years as the debt goes beyond $50 trillion and different States start their separation from United States and US ends up with the same fate as USSR.

However I wonder how long before Americans start heavily investing in the only capped money in existence which is Bitcoin...

Your poll can not be answered because it is missing the important part about "time". In other words it is unclear when you ask "What are your thoughts on increasing bitcoin's block capacity?" when do you mean?
For example if it is a hard fork to increase block size in the future when the need arises, then my answer is a big fat YES. We definitely need to increase the on-chain capacity at some point but the important part is the "at some point" part.

Right now we do not need a block capacity increase. The reason is pretty simple: the adoption hasn't grown enough for the current block capacity to not-be enough for the legitimate usage. Since I have to dot all the eyes and cross all the tees: Legitimate use is anything that is not a spam attack, meaning where people use bitcoin to transfer money or in other words when Bitcoin is the "peer to peer digital cash system" that it was intended to.
When it is used as "cloud storage" it is considered abuse and the transactions are spam. Meaning right now that the congestion is caused by abusing the protocol to perform an attack on bitcoin, this is not natural and the exploit should be fixed instead of increasing the capacity to let bigger spam in.

P.S. I don't think increasing block capacity has ever been a "taboo" as some like to exaggerate it. HOW it is increased has been the source of a lot of disagreement.

AI in trading has always been good for executing predefined scripts that requires machine accuracy and speed. But when it came to decision making to execute trades based on machine's analysis, they have always been terrible and this is not about to change. The biggest problem with AI and trading is that they can easily be gamed which means it can lead to huge losses.

It makes no sense I know
It is all about marketing to be able to sell dog shit to anyone who buys it. If they told them it is garbage, nobody would have even bothered looking at it. But when they use the term "art" to sell garbage, it gives the idiots the false feeling that it may actually have a value.

It is not new either. I remember in 2017 when the hype started for the first time, they were using anything they could. For example for a while they were trying to tie ICO scams with anything in real world that they could. Two major topics I recall were patient files (for health care system stored in blockchain) which was total bullshit and energy (where they basically hoped to create PetroToken{s} like PetroDollar and sell it to the fools).
Ever since 2017 they have changed face a lot but the fundamentals of the scam remain the same:
ICO, IDO, IBO, IEO, ITO, STO, DeFi, NFT, Ordinals

Why do you still struggle to understand the difference between "encryption" which by design is and has to be reversible and "hash algorithm" that by design is not reversible?
By the way in Bitcoin we do not use any kind of encryption whatsoever. So even bringing it up using AES in context of Bitcoin is irrelevant.

There is no perfect system so you are right, there will always be vulnerabilities that the users must be aware of. But generally speaking about security, using DEX eliminates a lot of the vulnerabilities that exist in CEX successfully.

I wouldn't call what you have in mind DEX. These are basically "token swap platforms" where you can only swap different shittokens with each other. They have much worse vulnerabilities than what is inherited from the token's contract, since they are sometimes written by incompetent developers and are not popular enough to attract any kind of contributor to help improve the tool.

Classic Zionist propagandist trying to twist the history and give legitimacy to the illegitimate Zionist regime which is now categorized as a terrorist organization.

Up until 1948 the Brits were the occupiers of these lands. After WW2 ended and Britain was no longer "great" they needed to give up a lot of colonies, so they took advantage and shipped all the Jews (they hated as much as Hitler) to these occupied lands by fooling them with the concept the Jews call "Aliyah". With the help of rest of Europe and US. They wanted to kill two birds with one stone: to get rid of Jews and have a proxy in West Asia.
Here you can see US gathering Jews to be shipped to Palestine:


These Jews were seen as refugees escaping the war torn Europe seeking asylum in Palestine so they were received by Arabs in their lands. As we can see in this image from 1947 the thousands of Jews that are shipped to occupied Palestine are pleading for asylum: "Germans destroyed our families and our homes, don't you destroy our hopes" can be read on the side of Theodor Herzl ship that has brought them to Palestine.

Another source for the image from a different angle: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/alicia_appleman_jurman/12/

Jews were supposed to be housed in these small settlements inside Palestine shown in white. But as you can see from the day the Zionist infestation began, they have been swallowing Palestine whole. Ethnically cleansing Palestinians and occupying their homes.


At this point there is not much left of Palestine and Gaza is their last stance against the apartheid regime occupying their homes. They either win and wipe out Zionist terrorists then Palestinians and Jews can start living side by side like the past 2000 years or the terrorists succeed in their genocide and end Palestine which means next they start their expansion plans by invading other neighbors starting from the weakest Egypt and Jordan.
Now you know why the Hurricane of Al-Aqsa took place on October 7 and why it still is a nightmare for the terrorist organization, Israel. Now you also understand why the Israeli terrorists are murdering civilians, specially children this easily. They have been doing it for years trying to end an entire race!

P.S. I thank god every day that we succeeded in destroying ISIS otherwise we would have been arguing with @DrBeer over the "legitimacy" of the country of Daesh!!! which is the copy of Israel with the same extreme ideologies as the Zionist terrorists.

Although I haven't gone through the whole code but from what I've checked I don't think they have ever implemented that part of the code responsible for computing the sig-hash (digest) for other sighash flags. You can see that elsewhere too. For example in the below link you can see the method that is computing sig-hash for SegWit outputs according to BIP-143, it is clear that this is not a full implementation of the BIP as it skips other sighash types and only supports SIGHASH_ALL (no _NONE no _SINGLE and no _ANYONECANPAY).

https://github.com/Foundation-Devices/passport2/blob/3d570fba50b40d65a04087127138426c2570e5a0/ports/stm32/boards/Passport/modules/psbt.py#L1588

Why more? In a lot of cases the products listed in the picture are a lot more expensive than their alternatives only because of their brand name.

Good news is that there are countless competitors for a lot of "simple products" from burgers to shampoos and drinks that have at least same quality if not better as replacements. These countries can easily import those instead. I assure you that the alternative producers would love to expand their business in today's economic hardship and tight competition to kick their competitors out.

In some cases specially in Asia, the shipping cost would decrease too since the alternative is closer.

Both of these countries import a ton of stuff. IIRC China imports is about $3 trillion annually.

Nobody is forgetting October 7, it will go down in history and from a military perspective this operation will be taught in military schools around the world in the coming decades.

What is interesting is that Zionists insist on spreading the propaganda that everything started on October 7, while ignoring the 7 decades that led to this date. The genocide that Israeli terrorists have committed all these years is not forgotten by anybody.

If you are importing a PSBT file for signing, the code rejects any sighash types that is not SIGHASH_ALL and there is no option to override that as far as I can tell from the source code:
https://github.com/Foundation-Devices/passport2/blob/3d570fba50b40d65a04087127138426c2570e5a0/ports/stm32/boards/Passport/modules/psbt.py#L512-L514

Any kind of transition is always hard but it is inevitable. The effects are in short term though. We've already seen such a transition in Russia when some businesses left (like McDonalds which was a $1.4 billion loss), the employees that lost their jobs in short term got absorbed into other jobs eventually and that ended up helping the domestic economy in the longer run (that is $1.4 billion that no longer exits the country to go into the pockets of a foreigner).

"An internet board" is just as important as anywhere else, after all Bitcoin network is run by regular users not by devs. First people have to realize what Ordinals is then we can move on to making a change. So many users still think they are creating a token with this exploit!
Not to mention that I'm already doing that elsewhere too and am already rejecting these malicious transactions myself.

It's all about the profit that these "franchises" pour into the pockets of the terrorist organization, Israel.
By boycotting said products people around the world are decreasing the amount of profit these companies make and consequently they decrease the amount of money the terrorist organization makes.
Not to mention that a lot of these companies in the list and a lot of others like Walt Disney! have been funding the organization to help them commit more crimes against humanity. So they have to see at least some consequence for supporting terrorism and genocide, even if it is a small revenue loss (although it may not be that small).

Let me emphasize something @Faisal2202 said but went unnoticed. Boycotting a lot of these products will help local economy. Many of these products aren't anything special that can not or is not produced locally. For example McDonald's isn't selling something high tech or special! It is burgers and fries. Something anyone else can do too, and in a much better quality. The revenue that these foreign companies lose goes to all the local ones. For example when people stop buying the low quality McDonald's burgers, they start going to other fast food restaurants and help those small businesses.

Well you should know and also tell them that Bitcoin is not an investment, it is a currency and its purpose is not to give you profit. It is made to give you financial sovereignty. By converting your centralized censorable fiat to the decentralized censorship resistant bitcoin you can freely use your money without having someone else's hands in your pocket.

The fact that your "friend" thinks a scammer like Wright has a lot of bitcoin shows how little he understands of the Bitcoin world. They are probably better off not having any bitcoins at all. Such people can be easily fooled and be taken advantage of.

A city under terrorist attack doesn't need immediate medical aid, it needs military aid to first get rid of the terrorists then start thinking about other needs. Not to mention that the Israeli terrorists are currently bombing any medical centers and refugee camps inside Gaza making sending any kind of aid impossible.

Today the Israeli terrorists surrounded the biggest hospital in Gaza called Al-Shifa with their tanks and the armed terrorists that entered the hospital have been taking civilian hostages and shot as many medical workers as they could.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/11/15/israel-hamas-war-live-israel-says-it-plans-to-raid-al-shifa-ministry

Warning, extremely disturbing footage showing how the Israeli terrorists have been bombing civilians:
https://www.aparat.com/v/qd6uS

Interestingly enough many of the questions you have in mind have already been asked and they are usually answered by Satoshi in early days. For example the Ordinals Spam Attack is a concern that was raised in a different form. People were trying to store DNS information inside bitcoin (that is pretty much the same as Ordinals attack which is using bitcoin as cloud storage) and Satoshi said along the lines of "not everything needs to be done by Bitcoin". Which is why that idea migrated to its own project called Namecoin.
Which is pretty much where we are now, if anyone wanted to create NFTs they should use a platform that actually has that option instead of using Bitcoin that does NOT and end up only spamming the chain with garbage.

I don't think that kind of prediction has ever been possible. Even now we can not project the adoption in the near future. If you look at Satoshi's prediction he left it WIDE OPEN when he said "in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume at all".

They are linked. When exchange rate of a currency drops, it leads to inflation. Of course it is not the only thing that affects inflation but it has a significant effect.

When you are reporting exchange rate for a whole year you can't just take a single point in a fluctuating market (eg. the peak in case of 2020) and run your conclusion based on that. In this case pound exchange rate started 2020 at $0.76 and only went to $0.86 "momentarily" before coming down to $0.76 again.
So you should at least use the average of the year which was around $0.75.
Same with other years, 2021 average looks around $0.72 which makes the drop about 4% not 19%.

You are again focusing too much on peaks. Fuel prices didn't come down from £1.90. They went up from £1.02 to £1.52 in this time frame.
And fuel is just one thing to consider when talking about product prices. There is interest rate, recession, inflation, supply chain disruptions, import troubles and expenses, and a lot more.

Considering that the biggest scams were when the exchange itself gets hacked and everyone loses their money, the solution to that is not using CEX in first place and using DEX instead.

The only way to process withdrawals is automatic, it is impossible to do them by hand unless the exchange has a handful of users. Any delays added to withdrawals is only worsening user experience and pushes customers away.

Requiring 2FA on all withdrawals is enough security.

That is terrible for an exchange since users would leave the page open and idle at some point when trading.